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Seems unlikely, but it is apparently true. The rumour that the announcement would be today turned out to be actuality! The Borderlands developer said: "Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's Chief Creative Officer, has great love and respect for Relic's brilliant, fun and innovative game and personally spearheaded the acquisition. Brian intends as first priority to direct Gearbox's interest to preserve and assemble the purest form of the original acclaimed and beloved games, Homeworld and Homeworld 2, with the intent of making them accessible on today's leading digital platforms."
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A new team assigned to review more than 6,500 child abuse and neglect reports that weren't investigated by Arizona child welfare officials says they've now assigned nearly 6,000 of those cases to investigators.
The so-called CARE team named on Dec. 2 by Gov. Jan Brewer provided the latest update Monday.
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I wear pink on occasion. A button-down Oxford cloth shirt with a blue blazer. For me, it's an edgy fashion statement, not the colour of altruism.
When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was surrounded by pink. Rather, she was bombarded by it. It was everywhere, as if the earth was awash in Pepto-Bismol. It was on rubber wrist bands, in TV commercials, on T-shirts, on the bottles of hand creams, on (this, most hilariously) pro athletes' uniforms. She could not escape it: Pink would not allow her to forget her condition. It insisted on reminding her of how much people cared about her, of how much they were rooting for her, as if cancer was a football game and their cheers could help her into the end zone. In the delusional vocabulary of the Pink campaigners, they wanted her to battle cancer and beat cancer, as if she could will herself to health. Go team go!
What hooey. These people, of course, were in the enviable position of being healthy, who had no idea what she had to face, and whose gestures of emotional support and fundraising were just that — gestures. They may have been well-intentioned gestures, but they were gestures, nonetheless, intended to say more about themselves than about my wife.
Meanwhile, all my wife felt was an immobilizing fear and growing rage. For her to feel gratitude for those expressions of sympathy was too much to ask of her. She had other things on her mind — her death, foremost. So while she watched her hair fall out, and threw up from her chemotherapy sessions, and endured the pitying looks and the intrusive idiocies of strangers who would touch her on the arm and ask her how she was doing — to which she would think to herself in reply, "Look at me. How the f--- do you think I'm doing?" — an entire industry of Pink was rising around her. It was designed, ostensibly, to raise money for cancer research but, not coincidentally, kept legions of publicists and event planners and hospital administrators and clothing manufacturers in clover. (Vancouver's Weekend Walk for Breast Cancer, for example, saw almost 45 per cent of monies raised go to staging the event.)
But more than that, to trivialize and prettify something as terrifying as cancer, by giving it a colour, the colour of Barbie and little girls' bedrooms (and there is much about the sentiments around breast cancer campaigns that is childish and treacly), seemed to my wife to be puerile. It was Feelgoodism unhinged from reality.
Speaking of Feelgoodism, this past week saw another pink wave, this one in the fight against bullying.
In my own town, one school held an anti-bullying "mini-carnival" and another an entire Anti-Bullying Week. Squadrons of public school kids in pink T-shirts roamed Vancouver streets in the name of anti-bullying. Even our premier — taking time off from bullying the province's teachers — offered up an editorial urging the public that it had to take a stand against bullying. Brave of her.
But when I look at all those kids in their pink shirts, I wonder:
What exactly do you think a bully is, or looks like? Like big Biff Tannen, in Back to The Future? Or like the swaggering jock in every bad teen movie ever made, the one who always gets his comeuppance? Is bullying as cinematic as that?
Or does it find a place at the cool kid's table? Can you find it in the class presidents and student councillors, the ones who organize anti-bullying events? Is it in the gym, or in the dressing rooms? Is it in the thousand sniggerings heard in a school hallway or cafeteria? Or in the clique of college-bound bright kids who see their future as revenge for the slights they suffered? And can't the bullied be capable of bullying, too? Or are they pure of heart and kind to all?
And do these kids think that once they get out of school that the bullying stops? If they do, I have some news for them: You ain't seen nothin' yet. Adults just don't call it bullying: We call it work, or politics, or the social ladder, or wealth. It can be a whole lot worse than being shaken down for your lunch money.
It's a simple thing to ask for, to be decent to one another, and one has to wonder why a campaign like Pink Shirt Day is needed to convey it. Shouldn't that be the parents' job to teach that to their children, or — forgive this old-fashioned notion — one's place of worship?
Instead, we've replaced that with the infantilized notion that a gesture as slim and easy as wearing a T-shirt or a wrist band can meet life's troubles head on, that it can cure, not just human nature, but death, too.
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jmg721 wrote:GoonerLover66 wrote:Yeah, I think that some explanations are needed for his Response and Stamina, Jason
When making stats for other leagues, I feel it is best to try to go by their standards. And if you look at the River Plate MF....Abelairas and Agusto Fernandez are both at 77....and I felt in Defense Domingo has some of the worst display of Def/Res I've seen in a while. Not a clue!! But he is good at transitioning into attack, and really showed potential of a deep-lying MF in the Serie A(was loaned to Genoa, but did play), if he can become competent defensively.
As for Stamina, again Abelairas was at 82 and plays a ton more minutes than Domingo. And 82 fits for Abelairas. It wasn't very scientific, but he played I think just 1 90 min match, and I watched it, and there was minimal running involved.
I hope that explained a little [sorry it's 4am here, and my brain JUST stopped working]
CMF 18 Domingo - playing playmaker role/not really too involved in match/
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Here are some further thoughts about assurance of salvation that came to me on my way to Northern Virginia, to visit my parents and (tomorrow) Barbara, because I don't think I made my meaning very clear some earlier entries.
The question of whether you or I will end up in heaven cannot be totally objectified. Non-Orthodox people may try, citing all that Jesus did to save us, and citing God's grace as applied to us in the sacraments. Yet we are taught that these things work their effect in us through faith.
There are only three ways I can think of to deal with the issue of faith. One is to ignore it. But that totally sabotages any objective assurance. Another is to have an incredible amount of faith in my faith, which arrogance would not be an encouraging sign. A third way is to try to objectivize my faith. That means --gulp! -- measuring it by my works. And that way most often leads either to despair (if one is brave and honest about it) or to self-deception, as in the people Jesus described in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats who even worked miracles in His name, but without any faith at all.
That's why such assurance as we have of our salvation cannot be had objectively. And the attempt to have it objectively is misguided. As St. Paul observed, the pledge and token of our salvation is the Holy Spirit in our hearts, to Whom "objective" and "subjective" do not apply.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Assurance of Salvation
Posted by Anastasia Theodoridis at 9:30 PM
Labels: Christian Life, Orthodoxy
6 comments:
- 123 said...
According to my priest, Met. Maximos of Pittsburgh has noted that the Greek of the NT makes it clear that we are saved not by our faith in Christ, but by Christ's faith (i.e., faithfulness). I'll try and get more info and the exact passage he is referring to.
- January 28, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- William Weedon said...
Was it Galatians 2:20?
- January 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM
- Anastasia Theodoridis said...
As I understand this idea, yes, and also such verses as Galatians 2:16,22 and Philippians 3:0.
But I believe this is a rather new notion, at least to the best of my poor knowledge. I could easily be proven wrong. But I don't think most Greeks, even, would agree with Met. Maximos that the language makes this CLEAR.
Do any of the Fathers teach it?
- January 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Anastasia Theodoridis said...
Make that Philippians 3:9!
- January 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM
- Anastasia Theodoridis said...
Although there's no doubt we could not be saved if Christ had NOT been faithful! But my hunch is these verses refer to our faith.
- January 28, 2008 at 9:51 PM
- William Weedon said...
I've never seen in any of the fathers the notion that it refers to Christ's faithfulness, fwiw.
- January 28, 2008 at 11:58 PM


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(Read article HERE on U-T San Diego website)
YANTAI, CHINA — You can thank Xu Ming, whose official title is Party Secretary Director, Yantai Municipal Administration for Culture, Broadcasting & Television and News & Publication Affairs. n In other words, in a communist country where virtually everything is run by or associated with the government, Xu is the high-ranking government official who not only made the San Diego Symphony's visit to Yantai possible, but personally made sure its members felt appreciated in San Diego's sister city.
"I don't think we knew what to expect coming here, and the reception has been overwhelming," said concertmaster Jeff Thayer. "Overwhelming in many ways. (They've been) very gracious in terms of how hospitable they've been, how generous they've been. … No one in the orchestra is unhappy about any aspect of our experience so far."
After a sold-out, statement-making (according to The New York Times) Carnegie Hall debut Tuesday, the orchestra flew Wednesday and Thursday from New York to Beijing, and then Thursday evening from Beijing to Yantai. Friday they had a day off before performing concerts in Yantai's Poly Grand Theatre with violinist Joshua Bell on Saturday and violinist Augustin Hadelich on Sunday.
Symphony members were given the opportunity on Friday, however, to tour several of the city's "AAAA National Tourist Attractions." Like San Diego, Yantai has miles of beaches and is working hard to bring tourists to them. It also has an affinity with San Diego in its history as an important navy base.
But June Shillman, the president of the San Diego-Yantai Friendship Society, who originally conceived of the idea of a "Friendship Tour" with Xu, believes there's a deeper relationship.
"People here are very friendly," said Shillman, who is also on the tour. "They (have) open hearts."
Certainly that was the orchestra's impression, in large measure courtesy of Xu. When the orchestra arrived at Yantaishan Park, which includes several museums, temples and sites of historic interest, Xu was there, with a translator, to act as guide.
He explained with pride the important position Yantai, which now has a population of approximately 3.5 million, holds in the history of China, and he frequently interacted with music director Jahja Ling, whose parents were Chinese and who is fluent in Mandarin.
"He's a musician," said Ling. "He plays the violin. He really appreciates music and is familiar with my work.
"It's kind of like they want to know you. It's not like some people you meet and they say good to meet you (and that's it). It's not superficial; it's like they feel really supportive and (there's) a sense of belonging."
During an interview, Xu showed several photos on his iPhone of himself playing the violin and talked about the importance of music as a means of communication.
"Music is the song of the soul," said Wu through a translator. "It's a common language. Music can bond us, from country to country."
Xu couldn't be present for the tour of the Changyu Wine Culture Museum that followed, but he had set the tone. While the musicians toured the venue and engaged in a bit of wine tasting, Ling and Hadelich were interviewed at length by the Yantai media.
In the "welcome banquet" that followed the musicians' return to the Crown Plaza Hotel (an upgrade, apparently arranged by Xu, from the originally scheduled hotel), Xu was back, serving as the dinner's genial host. With Yantai vice-mayor Song Weining, he invited Ling to the stage and presented three gifts: a piece of calligraphy (with a poem by Du Fu, a poet from the Tang Dynasty deemed one of China's greatest), a fan, and an example of the cut paper art that flourishes in Yantai.
Musicians, staffers, several trustees and members of the San Diego-Yantai Friendship Society were treated to a traditional Chinese dinner and more of Yantai's famous wine.
Xu offered a showcase of Yantai's own musical treasures at the celebration, from a traditional Chinese orchestra to "Beijing Opera" performers. But the most touching moment may have been when Xu brought the symphony's director of artistic planning, Tommy Phillips, and his new bride, harpist Julie Ann Smith, to the stage, dressed in traditional Chinese wedding attire.
Phillips had the most contact with Xu of anyone from San Diego and had visited Yantai several times in preparing for the tour. Xu said he wanted to honor a friend and gave Phillips and Smith a framed piece of calligraphy of a poem Xu wrote for the newly married couple.
The first few lines, translated into English: "Only with the strings does the harp give melody. Only with the feathers does a bird fly through the air. The music of the harp; birds gliding through the sky, may wings of love embrace you, may your hearts feel free to fly …"
Xu may be a good poet, and he's probably a skilled politician, but he's a master at the art of making people feel welcome.


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UPDATE (8/9 10:00 a.m.):
Wayne Newton's wife Kathleen McCrone Newton issued the following statement:
"With regard to this lawsuit, we have not seen the complaint, but our company ceased running Casa de Shenandoah July 1, 2017, due to Wayne's almost dying from a spider bite. So we are not a party and have no idea what happened in Oct. 2017."
A woman alleges a monkey kept as a pet by Wayne Newton attacked her daughter in 2017, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
The complaint, filed by Jocelyne Urena, states the monkey "viciously attacked and bit" Urena's daughter "without any provocation" during a tour of Casa de Shenandoah.
As a result of the attack, the daughter needed medical treatment and could require more treatment in the future, according to the complaint filed in Clark County District Court.
Newton "knew, or should have known, that the monkey had a propensity for viciousness and/or a propensity to bite and/or attack," the complaint alleges.
Urena is seeking more than $15,000 in damages, along with special and punitive damages.
Neither the attorney representing Urena nor a publicist for Newton immediately responded to requests for comment.


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- Writing is one form of composition or making, tantamount to the rest.
- All modes of composition are valid and valuable methods of expression.
- All modes of composition benefit from design thinking, rapid prototyping (a.k.a. repeated failure), iteration, and user feedback.
- The monopoly of text in schools impoverishes student learning, self-expression, and educators' understandings of their students.
- Students and teachers should compose and make in response to learning.
- Composing and making should be fun or otherwise deeply fulfilling in a personally meaningful way to students and teachers.
- To borrow from the National Writing Project (NWP), teachers should compose and make with their students.
- User feedback determines whether or not a composition or product works and fulfills a need; grades are unnecessary, superfluous, and harmful to the work of composition and making.
Democratizing composition is a means to help each student
- Create a positive digital footprint.
- Participate in the democratic processes of debate, decision-making, research, and self-discovery enabled by social media and, perhaps, the quantified self.
- Gain broad experience in a number of digital and physical media production techniques.
- Gain deep experience in areas of student-selected, self-directed learning.
The goal of democratizing composition is to allow students to experience positive "digiship", "an immediate citizenship, one that takes advantage of everyday technologies and materials to let kids rapidly prototype, share, and reiterate solutions to the problems and opportunities they see around them and in their own lives."
Professional development on broadening our definitions of composition can help us reach more students in our classrooms, and events like hack jams can help us adults problematize the monopoly that print- and screen-based texts hold over our schools.
Over the summer and the course of next year, I plan to build a resource for democratizing composition that shares out possible assignments, materials, methods, and resources in support of democratizing composition in schools.
If you have a comment, criticism, question, or suggestion, please let me know by email or on Twitter. Please comment below, as well, of course.
In the meantime, here are some of the resources I'm exploring right now in scaffolding my classroom for next year (please suggest more):
Coding & Making: MaKey MaKey
Modeling & Visualizing: Minecraft (soon to add book-making), Neatline, Roominate, Tinkercad
Webmaking: Thimble
Other avenues of making will include working with other, multiple, traditional and new media, building Rube Goldberg machines, re-designing the room into a modern play- and workspace, and continuing our small-group HTML/CC/Javascript camps. In addition to creating some kind of democratizing composition resource, I will help my students create a "what we made today" blog to share out what they make and why they make it. I will also help students curate and reflect on their digital lives with some kind of new media portfolio – hopefully I can help each student learn to code one for him or herself.
If you would like to team up over space and time, let me know and consider joining this Google doc about developing a Middle-school Open Online Course inspired by ds106. The "middle-school" part is just a red herring – all democratizing composers are welcome in all parts of the project!


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So, climate change and conflict is back in the media, seemingly with the strength of science behind it. I've been a rather direct, harsh critic of some work on this connection before, at least in part because I am deeply concerned that work on this subject (which remains preliminary) might disproportionately influence policy decisions in unproductive or even problematic directions (i.e. by contributing to the unnecessary militarization of development aid and humanitarian assistance). So, when CNN, the Guardian, and other media outlets jumped on a new paper in Science (sorry, paywalled) last week, and one of the authors was responsible for the paper I critiqued so harshly before, I felt compelled to read it – especially after seeing Keith Kloor's great post on the issue. After reading it, I feel compelled to comment on it.
My response is lengthy, so for those on a time budget, I offer some takeaway points. The main post, with details, follows.
Takeaway points
- The Hsaing, et al paper in Science makes claims that are much more nuanced than what is represented either in the press releases from Princeton and Berkeley, or in many of the media stories (especially the big outlets) about them.
- The actual findings of the paper simply reiterate long-held understandings of the connection between climate change and conflict
- These findings are, in summary:
- The climate affects many arenas, including food supplies, markets, and employment. The climate affects each of these in different ways in different places.
- Climate-related changes in one or more of those arenas could (but do not always) affect rates of conflict
- Even when climate-related changes to these arenas do provoke conflict, the provocation can occur in any number of locally-specific ways
- Therefore, all we can really say is that climate change might affect rates of conflict in different ways in different places in the future
- We already knew all of this
- The authors' claims (as stated in this press release from Princeton) that this study was necessary to establish a causal relationship between changing climate conditions and conflict is based on a straw man of "people" who have been skeptical of "an individual study here or there."
- Much of the literature, and those working on this issue, have long accepted the idea of a complex link between changing climate/weather conditions and conflict. The real question is that of how climate variability and change contribute to rates of conflict.
- The paper does not answer this question
- The quantification of increased risk of conflict in the paper is problematic, as the authors appear to assume a constant relationship, year-to-year or season-to-season, between climate conditions and their influence on various drivers of conflict.
- This assumption has long been discarded in studies of food security and famine
- This assumption likely introduces significant margins of error to the findings of this paper regarding increased risk of conflict associated with climate change
- The paper does not address the real research frontier in the study of conflict and climate change because it does not further our understanding of how climate variability and change result in increased risk of conflict
- To the author's credit, the paper does not purport to explain how observed climate variability and change are translated into conflict
- The paper merely summarizes existing literature exploring this issue
- The findings of the paper do not present an opportunity to adjust policy, programs, or diplomacy to avoid future conflicts, as they do not identify specific issues that should be addressed by such efforts.
- To some extent, this makes the critique under #2 above irrelevant – the "risk of conflict" figures were never actionable anyway
- Media coverage of this paper amounts to much ado about nothing new
Main Post
The Hsaing, et al paper bears little resemblance to the media stories written about it. It makes very measured, fairly contained claims about climate change and conflict that, if represented accurately in the media, probably would not have made for interesting stories. That said, the article deserves critical attention on its own terms so we can understand what, if any, new information is here.
First, I want to start with the good in this paper. This is a substantially more careful paper than the one I critiqued before, both with regard to its attention to existing work on the subject and to the claims it makes about the connections between climate change and conflict. The authors deserve credit for noting the long history of qualitative work on conflict and the environment, a literature often ignored by those conducting large, more quantitative studies. They also should be commended for their caution in identifying causal relationships, instead of basic correlations.
In my opinion, this much more measured approach to thinking about climate change and conflict has resulted in more nuanced claims. First, as the authors note:
"Social conflicts at all scales and levels of organization appear susceptible to climatic influence, and multiple dimensions of the climate system are capable of influencing these various outcomes."
But later in the paper, the authors temper this point:
"However, it is not true that all types of climatic events influence all forms of human conflict or that climatic conditions are the sole determinant of human conflict. The influence of climate is detectable across contexts, but we strongly emphasize that it is only one of many factors that contribute to conflict."
And in the end, the big summary (my emphasis):
"The above evidence makes a prima facie case that future anthropogenic climate change could worsen conflict outcomes across the globe in comparison to a future with no climatic changes, given the large expected increase in global surface temperatures and the likely increase in variability of precipitation across many regions over coming decades"
Every bit of this is fine with me. Indeed, had the reporting on this paper been as nuanced as the claims it actually makes…there probably wouldn't have been any reporting on the paper. The hook "the climate affects a lot of things, and some of those things could affect rates of conflict, so climate change might affect rates of conflict in different ways in different places in the future" isn't exactly exciting.
And this is where I have to critique the article. My critique has two sides, one intellectual and one from a policy perspective. They are closely linked and blend into one another, and so I present them both below.
Intellectually, I fundamentally question the contribution of this paper. In a nutshell, there is almost nothing new here. Yes, there appear to be some new quantifications of the risk of conflict under different climate situations, and I will return to those in a minute. But overall, the claims made in this paper are exactly the claims that have been made by many others, in many other venues, for a while. For example, the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation at USAID put out a report back in 2009 (yes, four years ago) that reviewed the existing literature on the subject and came to more or less the same conclusions as this "new" article. So I was a little bothered by the Princeton press release for this paper in which quoted lead author Solomon Hsaing several times, because I think his justification for the paper is based on a straw man:
"We think that by collecting all the research together now, we're pretty clearly establishing that there is a causal relationship between the climate and human conflict," Hsiang said. "People have been skeptical up to now of an individual study here or there. But considering the body of work together, we can now show that these patterns are extremely general. It's more of the rule than the exception.
I'd love to know who the "people" are who think there is no relationship between climate conditions and human conflict. Critiques of the study of this connection (at least credible critiques) have not so much argued that there is no connection, but that the connections are very complex and not well-captured in large-scale studies using quantitative tools. So, when Hsaing goes on to say:
"Whether there is a relationship between climate and conflict is not the question anymore. We now want to understand what's causing it," Hsiang said. "Once we understand what causes this correlation we can think about designing effective policies or institutions to manage or interrupt the link between climate and conflict."
…he's really making a rather grand claim for an article that just tells us what we already knew – that there is a connection between climate conditions and human conflict. And he is burying the real lede here…that the contribution we need, now, is to understand how these causal relationships come to be. This argument for "where we should go next" is also a bit grand, seeing as everyone from academics to USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation have been conducting detailed, qualitative studies of these relationships for some time now because we already knew a) that there were relationships between climate and conflict and b) we needed to establish what caused those relationships.
Second, I feel this article suffers from a critical methodological flaw, in that the authors never address the variable coupling of climate outcomes and changes in even those drivers of conflict identified in the literature. For example, it is not at all uncommon to have market shifts take place seasonally, in a manner that can be either coupled or uncoupled with shifts in climate: that is, sometimes a bad rainy season damages local harvests and drives market prices for food up, while other times it could be a great rainy season and a very productive harvest, but factors on regional or global markets could still generate price spikes that end up limiting people's access to food. In both situations, the people in question would experience a food stress, one closely linked to climate variability, and the other experience a food stress uncoupled from climate. This is why, as I argued back during the Horn of Africa Famine, drought does not equal famine. Famines are far more highly correlated to market conditions than climate conditions. Sometimes climate events like a failed rainy season can trigger a famine by pushing markets and other factors over key thresholds. However, we've also had famines in times of normal or even favorable climatic conditions for agriculture.
Simply put, the authors appear to assume a constant relationship between a conflict driver like access to food and the local/regional/global climate. To be fair, this seems to be a pretty prevalent assumption in the literature. But to the point, this is a bad bet. As best I can tell, the authors have not managed to address the intermittent coupling of conflict drivers like access to food and markets with climatic conditions in their analysis. This, to me, casts significant doubt on their findings that risk of inter-group conflict will rise 14% at one standard deviation of temperature rise – in short, this is far too precise a claim for a study with such large margins for error built into its design. My suspicion here is that the margin of error introduced by this problem is probably larger than their analytical findings, rendering them somewhere between weak and meaningless. And this, to be honest, was the only really original contribution in the paper.
Third (as I begin to pivot from intellectual to policy critique), while the authors claim to have focused on causal relationships (a claim I think should be tempered by my methodological concerns above), they cannot explain those relationships. I've made this point before: in the social sciences, causality is not explanation. Even if we accept that the authors have indeed established causal relationships between climate variability and change and the risk of conflict/rates of conflict, they do not know exactly how these changes in climate actually create these outcomes. This is clear in the section of the paper titled "Plausible Mechanisms", in which the authors conduct a review of the existing literature (much of which is qualitative) to lay out a set of potential pathways by which their observed relationships might be explained. But nothing in this study allows the authors to choose between any of these explanations…which means that all the authors have really accomplished here is to establish, by different means, exactly what the qualitative literature has known for a long time. To repeat:
- The climate affects many arenas, including food supplies, markets, and employment. The climate affects each of these in different ways in different places.
- Climate-related changes in one or more of those arenas could (but do not always) affect rates of conflict
- Even when climate-related changes to these arenas do provoke conflict, the provocation can occur in any number of locally-specific ways
- Therefore, all we can really say is that climate change might affect rates of conflict in different ways in different places in the future
We already knew all of this.
At this point, allow me to pivot fully to my fourth critique, which comes from a policy perspective. People tend to see me as an academic, and forget that I served as the first climate change coordinator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) at USAID. I was Nancy Lindborg's first climate advisor – indeed, it was in this role that I found myself first dealing with issues of conflict and climate change, as I was responsible both for briefing my Bureau's leadership on these issues and guiding the programming of the Bureau's dedicated climate change budget (some of which I directed into more research on this topic). In short, I do know something about policymaking and the policy environment. And what I know is this: this paper gives us nothing actionable to address. Even if I accept the finding of 14% greater risk of intergroup conflict at one standard deviation of temperature increase, what am I supposed to do about it? Without an explanation for how this temperature rise produces this greater risk, I have no means of targeting programs, diplomacy, or other resources to address the things that create this greater risk. In short, this paper tells me what I already knew (that climate variability and change can contribute to conflict risk) without giving me anything concrete I can work on. If I were still briefing Nancy, my summary of this paper would be:
- There is nothing new in this paper. Its key findings are those of CMM's (four-year-old) report, and are already well-established in the literature
- The paper does not provide any new information about how climate change and variability might contribute to increased conflict risk, and therefore presents nothing new that might serve to guide future policy, programs, or diplomacy
- I have methodological concerns with the paper that lead me to believe that the rates of increased risk of conflict reported in this paper are likely stated with too much confidence. These rates of heightened risk should not be cited until put under significant scrutiny by the academic and policy community*.
In summary, the supportable parts of this paper are nothing new – it is a reasonable summary of the issues with establishing a connection between climate change and conflict, and a decent (if truncated) review of the existing literature on the subject (I'd suggest that a real review article of this subject would have to go wider and look at the conflict and environment literature more broadly). But it doesn't say anything new that really bears up to scrutiny, and even if the "risk of conflict" figures are correct, the paper provides no information that might guide policy, programs, or diplomacy in a manner that could avoid such conflicts. For that information, we have to return to the qualitative research community, which has long espoused the same general findings as those in this paper.
The press releases from Princeton and Berkeley, and the more hyped of the media coverage we've seen around this paper (likely driven by those press releases) is much ado about nothing new.
*In my third point I am indeed taking issue with the peer review process that brought this paper to publication. I believe that Science wanted this paper for the same reason Nature wanted the last one: headlines. Let's see how the findings here stand up to serious scrutiny.
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Nebraska tops Michigan 23-9
Ameer Abdullah ran for 101 yards and a touchdown and Nebraska took control of the Big Ten Legends Division with a 23-9 victory over No. 20 Michigan on Saturday night.
Wolverines quarterback Denard Robinson left the game late in the first half with a right elbow injury. Robinson, who spent the second half on the sideline in an overcoat, watched as freshman backup Russell Bellomy threw three interceptions.
The Huskers (6-2, 3-1) moved into a first-place tie with Michigan in the Legends but own the tiebreaker.
"We'll enjoy it tonight and get back to work tomorrow and stay the course," Head Coach Bo Pelini said after the game. "At the end of the day, we didn't do anything fancy. We played good team defense."
Michigan (5-3, 3-1) generated a season-low 188 yards during its first visit to Memorial Stadium since 1911. The Wolverines had 52 in the second half.
It was the second straight game Michigan failed to score a touchdown.
Taylor Martinez was 14 of 24 for 166 yards, with an interception. Bellomy was 3 of 16 for 38 yards.


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Luscious D from the Flavor of Love 3 gives us a little flavor of what the D is all about…
LRG: Since you are from the "D" a.k.a. Detroit, what is the difference between L.A. men and Detroit men?
LD: Honestly that's a bit hard to answer, because I've only been to L.A. twice, and it was for work both times. So, I've only been out on the town twice, and have not had a fair opportunity to meet a lot of people. But, the thing that I did notice is that a lot of the guys in Hollywood are "Metro-sexual" though. The men are all dressed to the nines from what I saw. They are put together from top to bottom. I also noticed that they roll in two's, there's the main man and his wingman… (Laughing) The men in the "D" are different. When it comes to their appearance they are much more laid back, not as much effort put in, and you don't see all the "man grooming" here in MI like you would in L.A. Jeans and T-shirts is all you see. I've been lucky enough to travel around seeing different cities, and meeting unique new men, and I can tell you the one thing they all have in common…sex on the brain always! Never changes. (Laughing )
LRG: Are girls nicer in L.A. or Detroit?
LD: Don't matter if it's Detroit, L.A., or any where else, even if you're bangin' hot or not, we are all bitches. Can I say that? Don't get me wrong, there are some women who are both beautiful inside and out, but bottom line women are just bitches!
LRG: What do you do in the winter to keep warm in Detroit?
LD: Since I love to be able to prance around and look cute, but still stay warm, I love my booty shorts and a beater, but I gotta bust out my Uggs, a heated blanket, and a scarf to keep me warm. But when it comes to Michigan's tremendous winters, no question, I HATE THEM! I'm a sun bunny. Would love to be able to live in a bikini all year round. The less clothing the better. I just moved into a new house, so this winter I will be enjoying my hot tub on the balcony, or a hot steamy bath in my Jacuzzi tub relaxing and flipping through Lowrider of course! Other days I will be curled up in a blanket in front of the fireplace with my dogs.
LRG: What made you decide to be on Flavor of love 3?
LD: Well, I thought it would be a great opportunity. I was a huge fan of Seasons One and Two, and am so intrigued by Flav. I really wanted the chance to meet him and see if he in real life was as crazy as he seemed on T.V…and what you see of him is what you get! It was an overall an amazing experience and I was glad tobe a part of it.
LRG: Did you go on the show looking for love?
LD: No. My adventure was for the sole purpose of meeting him and seeing what he was about, and if anything create a friendship. So no, I didn't go there just to be seen and hopes I would walk out famous. But I would be lying if I said I didn't hope that it would help me further things like modeling my career. Of course I knew being on the show would help me get seen, so since the show I have gotten much more work and have met some really fantastic people. So, I'm on my way, this is just the beginning for me.
LRG: If you would of won, do you think you could have married flav?
LD: No and No! I can say from the heart that Flav is a very sweet individual and has the up most respect for women. He would be a prize for some lady out there, just not this one. He is far from a man I personally would like to spend the rest of my life with. He drinks and smokes too much. I dislike both. He hates dogs, and I'm such a huge animal lover to the point I'm a vegetarian. Flav loves his chicken, not saying that I couldn't be with someone that eats meat, but they must have a love for animals. He's a terrific man, but we're two very different people.
LRG: What type of guys do you like?
LD: I don't necessarily have a type. Something just has to catch my eye and grab my attention. I like a man with confidence, but not arrogance. Someone with a great sense of humor, and who can always makes me laugh. An individual that's going somewhere with their life, and who has hopes and dreams of their own, and who can stand on their own two feet. I do have a thing for men with tattoos. Bottom line, they just gotta be funky with a style that is just fresh to death.
LRG: What turns you on?
LD: A respectful woman doesn't kiss and tell. That's for me to know and only a few to find out. But, I will share with you that Giorgio Armani cologne, makes me melt.
LRG: What do you do for a living?
LD: I bartend and model for a living. And love both jobs. Though, in the future I would love to just model and then down the road do make-up. I work five jobs, so I'm always on the go. I look at it like: I'm all women, hear me roar.


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Jamie Green was named head men's golf coach at Duke University on January 9, 2009, and has steadily cemented his stature among the most prolific coaches in the history of the storied program.
In nine seasons, Green's Duke teams have qualified for NCAA Regionals eight times and advanced to the NCAA Championships on five occasions, including a national semifinal appearance in 2011. The Blue Devils have claimed 18 tournament titles under Green's watch, the third-most by a coach in program history.
Duke has also excelled in the classroom with Green at the helm, as 20 student-athletes have earned All-ACC Academic honors at least once in nine seasons. The Duke men's golf program has produced nine Academic All-Americans during Green's tenure, including Matt Oshrine, Alexander Matlari, Jake Shuman and Adam Wood in 2017.
The 2016-17 season was one of Duke's finest in recent memory, as the Blue Devils won three tournaments (including the ACC Championship) and established a new program record for season scoring average with a mark of 287.25.
All-ACC selections Alex Smalley and Chandler Eaton led the way for the Blue Devils en route to the team's trip to the NCAA Championships in Sugar Grove, Ill. following a second-place finish to host LSU in the Baton Rouge NCAA Regional tournament.
In the fall of 2015, Green oversaw one of the blistering performances in program history as Duke set program records for 36-hole (-29) and 54-hole (-34) scores in relation to par in the Blue Devils' runner-up performance at the Nike Golf Collegiate Invitational.
Duke posted two tournament wins in 2014-15, reaching the 2015 NCAA Championship via the NCAA Lubbock Regional. Green guided the Blue Devils to a tie for first at the Bandon Dunes Championship and an outright win at the Blue Devil Spring Shootout. Duke posted four under-par tournaments in the spring, including an eight-under 844 to finish third at the NCAA Lubbock Regional. Wood and Jake Shuman turned in stellar freshman seasons, combining for 29 even-par or better rounds and 12 top-20 finishes. Wood earned PING All-Region honors, while posting 15 rounds of even-par or better golf. Shuman matched a Duke freshman record with 11 under-par rounds to go along with four top-20 finishes, including a 16th-place tie at the NCAA Championship. Shuman and Wood were also named to the ACC All-Academic Team along with senior Turner Southey-Gordon.
In 2012-13, Green led Duke to a school-record five tournament wins, including the 2013 ACC Championship – the program's first in nearly a decade. The Blue Devils also captured team titles at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate, Rod Myers Invitational, Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate and Wolfpack Spring Open. Green, the 2013 ACC Coach of the Year, saw Brinson Paolini become the first player in Duke history to claim All-America and Academic All-America honors in the same season. Paolini also won the Byron Nelson Award and received All-ACC honors after finishing in the top 20 in all 11 stroke-play events and leading the team with a 71.48 stroke average. Duke also placed four players on the All-ACC Academic team, marking the fourth straight season the Blue Devils had four or more members on the team.
Green guided the Blue Devils to a win at the Rod Myers Invitational and five runner-up finishes during the 2011-12 season while also overseeing individual wins from Paolini (River Landing Intercollegiate) and Julian Suri (Rod Myers Invitational and John Burns Intercollegiate). Suri earned All-ACC and All-America honors after recording five top-five finishes and setting a school record with a 71.27 stroke average. Duke also set a school record by finishing under-par as a team in seven events and closed the year with the a 288.15 scoring average that was the third-best in Duke history at the time.
Duke posted one of its most successful seasons in 2010-11 as the Blue Devils captured three tournament titles and reached the semifinals of match play at the NCAA Championship. Duke won the prestigious Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship, as well as stroke-play titles at the Irish Creek Collegiate and NCAA East Regional – the lone NCAA Regional title in program history. The Blue Devils fired a third-round-low score at the NCAA Championship to climb up the leaderboard and secure a spot in the match play championship with an eighth-place finish. Duke defeated top-seed UCLA, 3-1-1, in the quarterfinals before falling 3-2 in a tightly-contested semifinal match with Georgia. Paolini received honorable mention All-America and All-ACC accolades. Five Blue Devils were also named to the All-ACC Academic team, while all eight team members earned ACC Academic Honor Roll status.
The eighth-place finish in the stroke play portion of the NCAA Championships was Duke's first top-10 showing at the national finals since 2005.
In his first full season at Duke, Green guided a lineup featuring three underclassmen to a second consecutive NCAA Championships appearance and a tie for third place finish at the ACC Championship. The Blue Devils placed in the top five in eight tournaments, including a season-best second-place showing at the N.C. State Wolfpack Intercollegiate. Adam Long earned All-ACC accolades and was a Byron Nelson Award Finalist, while Paolini set several Duke freshman records en route to being named the ACC Freshman of the Year. In addition to the success on the course, all seven team members were named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll in 2009-10.
Green led the Blue Devils to a tournament win and a third-place showing at the ACC Championship during the 2009 spring season. He guided Duke to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Central Regional, as the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Championship for the fifth time in a seven-year stretch. Long posted a team-low 72.97 stroke average en route to claiming PING All-East Region recognition, as well as Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar accolades.
During a highly successful five-and-a-half year tenure at Charlotte, Green led the 49ers to four NCAA Championships appearances, placing third in 2007 and eighth in 2008. The 49ers were one of just nine teams to reach the NCAA finals in all three seasons from 2006 to 2008. He also led the team to 17 wins overall, including 15 tournament titles from 2006 to 2008. The 49ers competed in 55 regular-season events, with 39 top five finishes. In 12 postseason events (league tournaments, NCAA Regionals, NCAA Championships), Charlotte posted seven top-five finishes. Under Green's direction, team records for single round, tournament and single season scoring were all broken multiple times, as well as individual records for single round,tournament and single season scoring.
In his first year, Green led Charlotte to a runner-up finish in Conference USA. The following year, he copped another runner-up finish and the program's first-ever NCAA Regional berth, as an at-large invitee to the East Regional. In 2005-06, Green guided the 49ers to the Atlantic 10 championship, a second straight NCAA East Regional berth and a qualification for the 30-team NCAA Championships.
In Green's fourth year, the 49ers again claimed the A-10 title and advanced through the NCAA Regionals to the NCAA Championship, where they placed third -- matching the best NCAA finish by any 49ers athletics program. The 49ers jumped to No. 1 in the country in 2007-08 after winning four consecutive stroke-play events, including the prestigious PING/Golfweek Preview. Charlotte tied for eighth at the NCAA Championships and finished the year ranked in the nation's top 10 by all three major rankings. Charlotte competed in 12 events, posting a school-record six wins, a runner-up finish and top 10 finishes at both the NCAA Championship and the NCAA East Regional in 2007-08.
Green had four All-America selections at UNC Charlotte, with Andrew DiBitetto and Corey Nagy earning honorable mention accolades in 2007. In 2008, Nagy again earned honorable mention while Jonas Enander Hedin was a third-team selection.
The A-10 Coach of the Year in 2006, 2007 and 2008, as well as the 2008 GCAA Eaton Golf Pride South Region Coach of the Year in 2008, Green also came to Duke with a strong academic reputation. Charlotte produced seven GCAA All-America Scholars in a three-year span (2006-08) and had three different players win A-10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in the same period. The 49ers also won the 2005 Conference USA Academic Award for men's golf by posting the league's best GPA. In 2004 and 2006, the golf team won the school's CHAMPS Team Life Skills Award for outstanding participation in that NCAA enrichment program.
A 1993 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and a member of the Golf Coaches Association of America since 1996, Green was an assistant coach at a number of schools prior to joining the 49ers. From 1999 to 2003, Green served as the assistant men's golf coach at North Carolina under head coach John Inman. He worked with the department's academic support center and helped North Carolina produce two GCAA All-America Scholars. In 2003, Green was one of three finalists for the inaugural Jan Strickland GCAA National Assistant Coach of the Year Award. From 2000-03, the Tar Heels advanced to the NCAA Championship three times, finishing in the top 10 twice and had two ACC individual champions along with five All-America selections.
At Auburn, Green helped the Tigers place 10th at the 1998 NCAA Championships and helped develop the talent of All-Americans Reid Edstrom and Jason Dufner. In 1998, Auburn produced a GCAA All-America Scholar in Roland Thatcher. Dufner won the 2013 PGA Championship and has made nearly $21 million on the PGA Tour, while Thatcher has also been a PGA Tour professional.
Prior to his work at Auburn, Green was an assistant coach at Dartmouth (1994-1997). Green has also served as an instructor of junior golfers at several different schools, academies and camps, including the Duke Academy of Golf, Tar Heel Golf School, Central Ohio Golf Academy, Jerry Haas' Wake Forest Golf Camp and Nike Junior Golf Camps. Inducted in 1997 as a Class A member of the PGA, Green was a golf professional at various golf and country clubs from 1993-97 and still serves as a Class A PGA member.
Green competed in the 1992 NCAA Division III Championship and won three varsity letters at Ohio Wesleyan, where he played for Hall of Fame coach Dr. Richard Gordin. Green has also worked with two Hall of Fame coaches in Auburn's Mike Griffin and Dartmouth's Bill Johnson. Dr. Gordin also coached former Blue Devil coaching great Rod Myers at Ohio Wesleyan.


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40 Years Of Going Beyond Visit
An anniversary for an economic development power.
Most folks probably know that tourism is in general a good thing for a city like Madison. But few likely appreciate just how valuable an economic development vehicle the industry as an entire sector really is to our community. Here are but two numbers: one Billion – the dollars generated by visitors to Dane County every year. And twenty thousand – the number of jobs supported by visitors. Tourism is one of the best things we've got going.
But here's the second part of the equation – the remarkable success of the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau. Usually behind the scenes, but with determination and passion, CVB President Deb Archer and her team do extraordinary work promoting our region, and strategically growing Madison's position as a destination for meetings, business, recreation, entertainment and so much more. They do it with skill, and smarts and a ridiculously small budget. And as of this week, they've been doing it for 40 years. That's an anniversary worth celebrating…and sharing.


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Dr Dan Carr Moderates Governors Panel on Opioids
by Pamela Ressler, MS, RN, HNC-BC, Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Pain Research , Education and Policy Program, Tufts University School of Medicine
Dr. Daniel Carr, Director of the Pain Research, Education and Policy Program at Tufts University School of Medicine recently moderated an esteemed panel at the International Conference on Opioids held at Harvard University. Panelists included all six governors of the New England states: Gov. Charlie Baker, MA; Gov. Maggie Hassan, NH; Gov. Paul LePage, ME, Gov. Dannel Malloy, CT; Gov. Gina Raimondo, RI; and Gov. Peter Shumlin, VT. The discussion of state by state initatives was framed around the topic of the conference: Opioids the New Normal — The future of opioid prescription. The balance between opioid overuse and addiction and effective treatment for those suffering with chronic pain is a difficult one. The bipartisan panel agreed that a multimodal approach will be necessary for systemic societal change. To watch the entire panel discussion moderated by Dr. Carr, click here This unprecedented forum was featured in a wide variety of media, including a front cover editorial ("Self-medicating in the opioid crisis") in the June 18 issue of The Lancet.
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Over the course of the next few weeks, Danish art collective Superflex (Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen) will stage FREE SHOP in different stores around Haugesund, Norway as part of the arts festival Dynamo-Haugesund 08. Superflex experiment with alternative systems of distribution and economic production in their work, such as their Creative Commons-licensed beer franchise FREE BEER and their free photocopy shop and intellectual property discussion forum COPYSHOP. As the name implies, shops participating in FREE SHOP allow purchases free of charge. The stores do not advertise their involvement with the project and often customers are surprised when they attempt to purchase their merchandise. The project plays with customer expectation as well as accepted systems of exchange.
Superflex's work has an incredible optimism to it... even their latest series of films like Burning Car and Flooded McDonalds.
I just interviewed them about their London screening of Flooded McDonalds. See http://mtblog.typepad.com/arts_ecology/2009/01/when-the-levee-breaks.html


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Electrons in conjugated organic polymers and molecules are strongly correlated since most of these systems are quasi one-dimensional. Experimental evidences include existence of two photons below one photon state, observation of negative spin densities in polyene radicals and qualitatively different behavior of optical gaps in polyenes and closely related symmetric cynanine dyes in the thermodynamic limiy. In this talk, I will introduce the model Hamiltonians for the electron states in conjugated systems. The DMRG method is ideally suited for their study. Modifications to the DMRG method to obtain important low-lying states of the systems and methods of obtaining linear and nonlinear optical response coefficients using the DMRG technique will be discussed [1-4]. Application of the method to the study of a wide variety of conjugated systems will be touched upon [5,7]. I will also discuss some recent applications of wave-packet dynamics in the study of some time-dependent phenomena [8]. References [1] S. Ramasesha, Swapan K Pati, H.R. Krishnamurthy, Z. Shuai and J. L. Br´edas, (1996) "Symmetrized DMRG method for the excited states of Hubbard models", Phys. Rev. B 54, 7598. [2] Z. Shuai, J. L. Br´edas, Swapan K. Pati and S. Ramasesha, (1998) "Comment on the exciton binding energy in the strong correlation limit of conjugated chains", Phys. Rev. B 58, 15329. [3] Z. Shuai, J. L. Br´edas, Swapan K. Pati and S. Ramasesha, (1997) "Quantum confinement effects on the ordering of the lowest-lying excited states in conjugated chains", Phys. Rev. B 56, 9298. [4] Swapan K Pati, S. Ramasesha, Z. Shuai and J. L. Br´edas, (1999) "Dynamic nonlinear optical properties from the symmetrized density matrix renormalization group method", Phys. Rev. B 59, 14827. [5] C. Raghu, Y. Anusooya Pati and S. Ramasesha, (2002) "A density matrix renormalization group study of low-lying excitations of polyacene within a Pariser-Parr-Pople model", Phys. Rev. B 66, 035116. [6] S. Mukhopadhyay and S. Ramasesha (2009) "Study of linear and nonlinear optical properties of dendrimers using density matrix renormalization group method", J. Chem. Phys. 131, 074111. [7] M. Kumar and S. Ramasesha, (2010) "A DMRG Study of the Low-Lying States of Transverse Substituted Trans-polyacetylene and Trans-polyacetylene", Phys. Rev. B. 81, 035115 [8] Tirthankar Dutta and S. Ramasesha, (2010) "Double time window targeting technique: Real-time DMRG dynamics in Pariser-Parr-Pople model", Phys. Rev. B 82, 035115. [9] Simil Thomas, Daniel Garcia, Karen Hallberg and S. Ramasesha "Fused Azulenes: Possible Organic Multiferroics", Phys. Rev. B RC (communicated)


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Which Would You Choose?
Express opinions about what you'd rather do.
- Target Age: 4-7
- Learning Goals: vocabulary, oral language development, values, critical thinking
- Related Episode: Martha Gives Advice
Target Words
advice, agree, encourage, disagree, opinion, suggest
Encourage your child to express his or her opinion with questions such as these:
- Which would you rather be, the President of the U.S. or a movie star?
- Would you rather have the power to be invisible or the power to fly?
- Which do you like better, waterfalls or ocean waves?
- Would you rather drive a fire truck or a motorcycle?
- Would you rather have a pet elephant or a pet monkey?
- Would you rather be in a room with a mosquito or a mouse?
Take it Further
Ask follow-up questions to learn more about your child's preference. Share your own ideas as well. If other kids or family members are around, ask their opinions too, and invite discussion:
- Why would you choose that?
- Interesting. I think I agree. I think a monkey would be a terrific pet. But Daddy disagrees. He says he would much rather have a pet elephant.
- If we were stuck in a room with a mosquito, what would yousuggest we do? That's good advice!
Related Books
- The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
What's the most important thing about rain? About the sky? About a shoe? The author gives her opinion. What does your child think?
- Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig
Discover your child's preferences and share your own as you answer the questions posed in this book. Would you rather be thunder or lightning? A stick or a stone?
- The Kids' Book of Questions by Gregory Stock
This book contains great family conversation starters for the car, the dinner table, or anywhere.